8/10
Good movie. Apparently of lot of white people come away thinking of Sal as the victim and a lot of black people come away thinking of Mookie as the hero...I was somewhere in between, I think neither were heroes and both were in the wrong and in the end, Mookie didn't do the right thing, which I think is what Spike Lee was trying to get across...but I don't know. The quotes at the end from Malcolm X and MLK muddle things too. Anyone else seen it have an opinion?
7/10
I'd never seen this before but so many people mentioned it in the "creepiest movie scenes ever?" topic I had to watch it. The movie itself is pretty lame - none of the deaths are very good/gory/inventive and the kids involved are too young for any gratuitous nudity, so it's kind of a chore to make it through...but the ending scene, holy shit what a brilliant twist of total unexpected weirdness. Definitely won't be able to forget that for a while...
7/10
Good entertaining Clint Eastwood Western, not his best but not his worst either...it was fun to see him as the sheriff systematically tracking down the guys who wronged him one by one.
7/10
Kind of a "real" look at relationships (or basically one relationship) between the amazing Zooey Deschanel and some dude, I could see a lot of people hating this but for some reason it struck a chord with me, even if I never really went through what the characters did...I probably wouldn't watch it again soon but I'm glad I saw it.
8/10
Wasn't really sure what to expect from this but I was surprised to find out it's not really a zombie movie...well there's zombies, but obviously the main message is how man's greatest danger to himself is himself and all that, which has been done before, but it was done very well here too. A pleasant surprise.
6/10
Campy fun, I'll always fantasize about what it would be like if a Westworld actually existed but man, so many plotholes abound once you start thinking about the logistics of such a place...
8.5/10
Great Western directed by and starring Peter Fonda and featuring Warren Oates. The story moves slowly, deals with unconventional Western subject matter, and features only about 3 minutes total of actual gunfighting. So anyone expecting a conventional, action-packed Western will hate it. Personally I loved it, and two things immediately struck me - the fantastic editing job (which, with all the fancy image burns and transitions and whatnot, some will say is to distract from the fact that there's no real story) and the amazing soundtrack by Bruce Langhorne I believe. The two combine for an opening sequence that I don't think I'll soon forget. If you like Westerns that are somewhat off the beaten path, check this one out.
3/10
Someone recommended this to me because "if I liked Extras (the series), I'd love this". I do like Extras and I like British humor, but this was not similar and had nothing going for it at all. It was like they were trying to make an American Britcom...and it was pretty bad. The "straight man accidentally takes psychedelic drugs and things get crazy!!!" crutch has been used to death, as has the cranky old impaired elder who swears and hates everything character. Most of the other jokes were just incredibly lame (the old man poops on one of the guys' hands! the midget gets placed on top of the dad in the coffin in a 69 position! how outlandish!) and fell totally flat. The writing was dull and uninspired too, which is normally the strength of so many British comedies. Overall I chuckled maybe twice, and otherwise barely broke a grin. Disappointing considering how much it'd been hyped. Then I get on IMDB and see dozens of people going "omg I was laughing so hard when the guy got poop on his hand I could barely breathe!!" and I wonder if it's just me.
7/10
John Cassavetes movie from 1965 I think, first one of his I've ever seen. Kind of interesting "case study" almost about the dissolution of a marriage. It basically deals with a volatile couple that get into an argument and the night after the husband demands a divorce. It's a very weird movie and I say that having seen at least a few weird movies...everybody talks in non-sequitors and the actors are laughing throughout almost the entire movie, despite how much everybody seems to hate their lives and their surroundings. It was interesting and I'm glad I watched it but not something I'm really in a hurry to see again.
6/10
I wanted to like this more than I did...it just sort of plodded along with no real scares or anything. It worked best when the cannibals were hidden away in the darkness. Once you start seeing them galloping along in broad daylight with their ridiculous animal pelts and shell necklaces, the element of fear is pretty much gone. I don't think this one held up quite as well as other 70's horror flicks do.
La Jetée - 8/10
Sans Soleil - 6.5/10
Two movies by French filmmaker Chris Marker. La Jetee is a short made entirely of stills and deals with post-apocalyptic time travel, very interesting and curious movie that I watched a couple times and enjoyed a good bit. Terry Gilliam pretty much remade it as 12 Monkeys but I haven't seen that yet.
Sans Soleil is feature length and is a sort of faux documentary/travelogue using mainly footage Marker shot in Japan set to a female narrator reading letters sent to her by the ficticious camera man. Hard to explain. It was nice enough, but I just never really got into it that much.
